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...passengers are permitted on the northbound newspaper train leaving London's grimy King's Cross station each morning at 2:34 a.m. But 15 minutes before the train was scheduled to leave one morning a man climbed aboard it and settled himself in a car reserved for railroad employees. "No passengers," said a ticket collector. The traveler refused to budge. The ticket collector fetched a guard. The traveler refused to budge. The guard fetched an assistant stationmaster...
...Near Maxville, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's northbound Orange Blossom Special hit a split rail with a speed that sent six sleepers and the diner skidding on their streamlined sides. Reason: bad maintenance. Injured...
Carnival is the keynote at Hanover this morning as Dartmouth's recordbreaking hockey team awaits a Cambridge invasion at 11 o'clock. A Crimson Varsity squad last hit the northbound trail when the Green staged a gala weekend gathering November 9, and the girls went home Sunday night with a distinct impression that Harvard had been in town...
...long last, the foreign press invaded Soviet-occupied Manchuria. After months of Red tape and runarounds, 22 correspondents and photographers found it deceptively easy to push aside the iron curtain that had kept them out. With a hesitant Godspeed from the Chinese, they boarded northbound trains at Chinchow for sightseeing tours of Mukden, and Changchun, the capital...
...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...